Mango
06-13-2003, 08:06 PM
On many sites, I've seen frames (or maybe they're DIVS? I don't know) with no scrollbars, but yet they expand lengthwise to accomodate more text. Like, if you choose to add more text to your frame, the frame expands to accomodate your text. Unlike some other frames, where you have to highlight some text in the frame and drag down so you can see the rest of the text. I'm trying to figure out how to make the frame expand to accomodate more text, without a scrollbar. It's mostly seen on Blogs, I think.
Like on this site (http://www.htmlpalace.com)?
It's an absolutely positioned div, with no specified length.
<div style="positon:absolute; top:#px; left:#px; width:#px;">
TEXT
</div>
They take a thin slice of the botton of the layout, make it as wide as the screen, and set it as a tiling background for the page.
Mango
06-13-2003, 09:16 PM
It didn't work for me, like its for my blog, and the layout doesn't expand.
Not like that site? Have you seen it somewhere?
zangerbanger
06-15-2003, 12:44 AM
I think you could be headed in the direction of tables (http://www.lissaexplains.com/table.shtml) :) .
Mango
06-15-2003, 05:13 PM
Yeah I tried that, but somehow when I add a background to the cell, the background doesn't show up. I uploaded the image. But perhaps the background of cells can only be used with .gif or .jpg files? Not .png?